Saatchi & Saatchi Internships

- Attended JCPenney TV commercial shoots.
- Cool office.
- Talent co-workers and co-interns.
- Worked on a youth marketing brief that the Saatchi & Saatchi team was creating.
- Participating in brainstorming/strategy sessions.

Lots of meetings.

Saatchi & Saatchi is a great ad agency and well known. My advice is to watch the account wins/losses and create a resume based specifically on an account.

- People at Saatchi are incredible.
- Happy hours.
- Learning Seminars.
- I loved the thrill of new business. Worked on a few pitches and Cold Stone Creamery.
- I got a really interesting assignment, which was to research potential acquisitions for Saatchi.

New business requires long hours, hard work, and thick skin.

Be enthusiastic.

- Weekly seminar series was fascinating. Saatchi does this very well.
- Invited for a product photoshoot and commercial post production session.
- Worked with the planning team on General Mills brands.
- NYC is a blast.
- Smart planners.

Saatchi & Saatchi only hired about 15 interns, so it's competitive to get a spot.

- Specify which department you want to work in and why.
- Find a way to generate a referral from somebody that currently works at Saatchi & Saatchi.
- Get involved in your local ad club.

- Saatchi & Saatchi is a cool office with great people. I loved my manager, she was terrific.
- Participated in social media strategy sessions and helped to develop a twitter strategy.
- Maintained a competitive blog for client and internal account team.
- Even as an intern, I really feel like part of the account mgmt team.
- Paid and located in NYC.
- Agency intern project was awesome. We put together an integrated campaign for Folgers to reach Gen Y.

- Creative department exposure.
- Landing a full-time job is going to be difficult in this economy.

- Get involved in Ad clubs on campus.

- Saatchi & Saatchi is a well respected NYC agency.
- Agency energy.
- Access to a TV production shoot and the work that goes on behind the scenes to make it happen.
- Agency 101 weekly seminars across Deutch, Digitas, Publicis, Starcom Mediavest, Grey, and Oglivy New York.
- Saatchi tasked interns to compete come up with a campaign for Folgers. I really enjoyed this intern project (how to connect the brand with Gen Y).

- Not as much digital as I expected after reading all the trades that go on and on about digital.
- Didn't get too deep into any single client.

If you are into advertising, you really should be in NYC.

- Mentorships and relationships.
- Saatchi is a well know ad agency and this lends credibility to my resume.
- Enjoyed learning about media.

- Lots of competitive research and I'm not sure how useful it was.

It's all about client relationships. If you go to college at or around NYC, you should intern at an agency in town. Also, work hard.

- Loved the people.
- Saatchi is a well known agency.
- Office space.
- Paid.
- Tasked with conducting surveys and interviews for research on an Olay product. Enjoyed the assignment and presenting insights to the planning and account team.
- Worked a little on research for a Red Lobster new business pitch. I love new business.
- Intern project.
- Got along very well with the other interns and we hungout a ton outside of the office.

none.

If you can get an ad agency internship with one of the big boys in NYC, do it.

Got hired

Quit shortly after. Everyone in advertising is mad and nuts with no perspective on life.

Great internship - not so great place to work. Go to business school advertising won't live up to your expectations.

- Enjoyed my team.
- Full project lifecycle.
- Interesting focus group and research side of the advertising business.
- Experience creating Scope of Work docs and client budgeting.

- The creative department was having the most fun.
- Health is highly regulatory.

Saatchi Health is a great place to intern. Look into connecting with one of their current employees before the application process.

- Saatchi & Saatchi is very supportive of interns and I was able to really get involved and feel like part of the team.
- Worked hand in hand with the account management team for JCPenney.
- Creative brainstorms.
- Happy hours.
- On set for different types of production projects.
- Involved in all forms of media including TV, radio, print, and outdoor.
- Overall, the experience at Saatchi was outstanding.

entry level account people work long hours and aren't paid to much for NYC living.

Read the Lovemarks book written by the Saatchi CEO.